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The Avon Park Black Tigers
The Avon Park Black Tigers were an all-Black town team of the 1940s and 1950s, managed by Willie James McRae, whose son Hal went from the Castle Street sandlot to the major leagues.
The Baseball Museum Opens
How the Avon Park Baseball Museum came to be: the 1,600-square-foot addition beside the Depot, Keith Goodson's mural, and the grand opening that drew six hundred people.
The Cardinals in Avon Park, 1927–1929
The St. Louis Cardinals held spring training in Avon Park for three seasons from 1927, bringing the Yankees, Senators and Athletics to Cardinal Field, and Babe Ruth to a crowd of five thousand.
